Dictionary

of

LATIN

and

GREEK

Theological Terms

Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology

Second Edition

Richard A. Muller

a division of Baker Publishing Group

Grand Rapids, Michigan

© 1985, 2017 by Richard A. Muller

Published by Baker Academic

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P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Muller, Richard A. (Richard Alfred), 1948– author.

Title: Dictionary of Latin and Greek theological terms : drawn principally from Protestant scholastic theology / Richard A. Muller.

Description: Second edition. | Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017026985 | ISBN 9780801098864 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Theology—Dictionaries. | Latin language—Dictionaries—English. | Greek language—Dictionaries—English. | Latin language—Terms and phrases. | Greek language—Terms and phrases.

Classification: LCC BR95 .M86 2017 | DDC 230.03—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017026985

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.

To my parents,

Alfred and Kathryn Muller,

with love and gratitude

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Note to the Reader

Bibliography

Transliteration of Greek

Abbreviations

Dictionary Entries A–Z

English Index to Key Latin and Greek Terms

Preface to the Second Edition

More than three decades have passed since the appearance of the first edition of my Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms. Reception of the book throughout the years has been most gratifying.

In many ways the first edition of the dictionary charted my own introduction both to the intricacies and, underneath those intricacies, to the incredible clarity of Protestant scholastic thought. In the years intervening between that initial attempt at grasping the vocabulary of the older orthodoxy and this new edition of the book, I have continued to study the materials of the eras of the Reformation and orthodoxy, and I have found (not surprisingly) that the language of this highly variegated, philosophically attuned, and sometimes highly technical theology was far richer than I had originally imagined. A second edition allows me to offer in print an expanded point of entry into the terminology of Protestant orthodoxy, incorporating some of what I have learned over the years.

Few readers have complained about omissions, although various colleagues and students have noted terms and phrases that they would have liked to have seen included and defined, and ...